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I feel the same way about my dev environment. I'm a Linux user with a propensity for customization, but my preferred bashrcs and vimrcs have converged on someth
by resonious 5y ago
I feel the same way about my dev environment. I'm a Linux user with a propensity for customization, but my preferred bashrcs and vimrcs have converged on something small enough to write up from memory. It's a lot of fun to have a hugely customized ultra-productive setup, but as soon as you find yourself on somebody else's system, a server, a container, or whatever, it's not so fun anymore. The less setup you need in order to be comfortable, the easier it is to be comfortable!
- doubled112 5y agoI think I've fallen into this trap before, and ended up with a small set of features that degrade well if I don't have them. Something like fish shell will never work for me. Not every machine is mine. So I tried Zsh. It turns out that better tab completion, syntax highlighting and suggestions does speed me up, but I don't feel lost when the machine has a default bash install. The hours I've spent customizing just to decide it's too much and undoing half of it is baffling. At least I had fun doing it, or that's what I tell myself.